Example sentences of "was [verb] up in [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is believed to have acted as a kind of broker for that dangerous spy-ring that was broken up in Holland last year . |
| 2 | At the same time , as a director of Lonrho , he was caught up in Sir Edward Heath 's famous description of the company as the ‘ unacceptable face of capitalism ’ . |
| 3 | As assistant manager of powerplant quality , he was caught up in Rolls-Royce 's efforts to penetrate the civil aircraft business with the Merlin . |
| 4 | ‘ By the time it was picked up in France I 'd had toxoplasmosis in my bloodstream for two months . |
| 5 | Well that gave me a start of course , so immediately I got a warrant out , and he , some while afterwards he was picked up in London . |
| 6 | If a stranger was picked up in Ipswich . |
| 7 | THIS bronze handle ( fig. 6.1 ) was picked up in April 1967 by Mr J. A. Hadman from the surface of a field half a mile to the north-east of Oundle , Northants. , on the east side of the River Nene ( Nat . |
| 8 | Stock chymotrypsin solution ( Sigma ; product code C4129 ) was made up in HCl ( 25mmoldm -3 ) and the concentration adjusted with TES ( 100mM , pH7.8 ) to produce a rate of change of absorbance of 0.025 units min -1 at 405nm and 20°C in a control assay consisting of chymotrypsin ( 7–8μg in 0.6ml ) ; 0.3ml TES ( 100mM , pH7.8 ) ; and 0.3ml of a solution of substrate ( 1.2mM ) in 50% dimethylsulphoxide/TES . |
| 9 | Jabberwocky is a poem that was made up in Wonderland and it describes some of the wonderful creatures to be seen there . |
| 10 | In 1976 a constitution was drawn up in Lisbon which designated Madeira an Autonomous Political Region . |
| 11 | DEC said it was booting up in Seattle . |
| 12 | I had my fill of fucking antiques when I was growing up in Pimlico , and in Trenton , New Jersey . |
| 13 | Phyllisia faced many trials while she was growing up in Harlem , the first occurred when she was mocked by other pupils in her class , they called her ‘ Monkey chaser ’ and ‘ Teachers pet ’ because she was cleverer than the others . |
| 14 | Says Brian Bovell of the Posse : ‘ I remember when I was growing up in Tottenham in the Sixties , how my mum and dead dealt with potentially scary , racist situations — they found dignity through humour . |
| 15 | When he was growing up in Dearborn there was a succession of sad-sack , embarrassing ( to a fan of Johnny Unitas ) , old-world relations with funny accents who were constantly belly-aching about the war and — of course — the dreadful death and displacement which had taken place . |
| 16 | Across the river in the east it is not far to the site of the Gestapo cells where the young Erich Honecker was locked up in March 1945 for organising Communist resistance against the Nazis . |
| 17 | Possibly world war III was brewing up in Nicaragua — he mentioned that to North , though North doubted it , thought the Russians would never fight for the place — and here was he , O'Boyle , being told about the innermost strategic details . |
| 18 | A subsidiary company , Frippak Feeds , was set up in Batley , West Yorkshire to manufacture the feed — the only one which can be used exclusively , without the need for supplements . |
| 19 | A public clepsydra was set up in Rome in 158 BC by Scipio Nasica . |
| 20 | The real beginnings , however , were made in 1969 when a central cataloguing institute was set up in Rome , which became the present Istituto centrale per il catalogo e la documentazione ( ICCD ) when the Minstero per i Beni Culturali was founded . |
| 21 | Operating solely in the UK and Ireland , Agility was set up in April , 1992 . |
| 22 | Goldmine UK , a six person outfit , was set up in April by former Sybase colleagues Malcolm Neill and John Rodford together with Brian Clarke , one of the originals at Pyramid UK . |
| 23 | A Monetary Co-operation Fund , to give support to weak currencies , was set up in April 1973 , but proved of limited value . |
| 24 | In Spain the Archive of the Indies , which had great importance for some aspects of foreign policy , was set up in Seville in 1781 . |
| 25 | Here the Lignite Action Group was set up in March 1985 after a public meeting in Moortown to express concern over test-drilling in the area was attended by 500 people . |
| 26 | To provide immediate employment for young men between 18 and 25 , the Civilian Conservation Corps ( CCC ) was set up in March 1933 . |
| 27 | Sure Style was set up in March last year by two directors of the failed double glazing firm Storm Seal . |
| 28 | This new liberal grouping ( Bund freier Demokraten ) was set up in West Berlin on Feb. 12 . |
| 29 | In the mid 1920s a class was set up in London ; in 1934 this became a school at Penhill in Kent . |
| 30 | In 1962 , the Institute of Directors ( IOD ) established a Retirement Advisory Bureau ; and the first private retirement consultancy was set up in London in 1965 ( IPM 1965 ) . |